April’s Birthday Party
After writing the massive birthday snark for Jeremy yesterday, I was pretty tired. Too tired to do the Howard perspective and I was not sure it was necessary, because Jeremy covered it pretty well, I thought. The interesting thing about those kind of snarks is that I kind of write it out and then I think, well who was there and what would they think about what just happened? Then I go through individual story areas and add remarks from the characters. There were a lot of people there.
The most fun was researching Bloodbeast movies and finding an actual Norse reference to the bloodbeast, which fit perfectly with Gerald and Thorvald’s Viking obsession.
This morning I was inspired by the most recent “happiness” survey which came to the conclusion if you were married, had children and went to church; you were the most likely to be happy. I thought I would take that into Dirne territory and had her drag Jeremy to church and lunch afterwards. Where I grew up in North Carolina, if a girl’s boyfriend did church and Sunday lunch with her family, it was pretty serious. I don’t know if Canada has similar experiences. For the church, I picked the name of a very old church in Toronto and changed the saint name from Matthew to St. Damian, the patron saint of doctors. I looked for a patron saint of pastries, but I don’t think there is one.
Tomorrow’s strip: I don’t know what to think. Eva was reintroduced last week as a girl who sings with 4-Evah in April’s conversation with grandpa Jim, but the band is practicing without her and the microphone is pointed at Gerald as if he is the singer, although he is not singing. However, given the Sunday colour strip, Eva is about to be reintroduced and a Duncan / Eva relationship started. That should make the_berserker happy. NOT!
The implication from the strip and April’s comments is that Becky did really carry the band with her voice and her keyboard. One of the amazing things about this strip is that it goes way out its way to develop sympathy for certain characters and then throws it in your face.
For example. Evil Thérèse. First she is portrayed as unnecessarily jealous of Liz around Anthony. Then we are shown Anthony really is still interested in Liz and her jealousy was justified. Now, after literally months of saying how good April is on the guitar and how Becky’s stuff sounds like rap, we learn 4-Evah was really a one-woman show and she was probably right to quit them. It is very confusing
The most fun was researching Bloodbeast movies and finding an actual Norse reference to the bloodbeast, which fit perfectly with Gerald and Thorvald’s Viking obsession.
This morning I was inspired by the most recent “happiness” survey which came to the conclusion if you were married, had children and went to church; you were the most likely to be happy. I thought I would take that into Dirne territory and had her drag Jeremy to church and lunch afterwards. Where I grew up in North Carolina, if a girl’s boyfriend did church and Sunday lunch with her family, it was pretty serious. I don’t know if Canada has similar experiences. For the church, I picked the name of a very old church in Toronto and changed the saint name from Matthew to St. Damian, the patron saint of doctors. I looked for a patron saint of pastries, but I don’t think there is one.
Tomorrow’s strip: I don’t know what to think. Eva was reintroduced last week as a girl who sings with 4-Evah in April’s conversation with grandpa Jim, but the band is practicing without her and the microphone is pointed at Gerald as if he is the singer, although he is not singing. However, given the Sunday colour strip, Eva is about to be reintroduced and a Duncan / Eva relationship started. That should make the_berserker happy. NOT!
The implication from the strip and April’s comments is that Becky did really carry the band with her voice and her keyboard. One of the amazing things about this strip is that it goes way out its way to develop sympathy for certain characters and then throws it in your face.
For example. Evil Thérèse. First she is portrayed as unnecessarily jealous of Liz around Anthony. Then we are shown Anthony really is still interested in Liz and her jealousy was justified. Now, after literally months of saying how good April is on the guitar and how Becky’s stuff sounds like rap, we learn 4-Evah was really a one-woman show and she was probably right to quit them. It is very confusing
posted by howard at 11:11 PM
3 Comments:
::nodding::
That band was just holding Becky back! :)
BTW, I've enjoyed Dirne's family and their hyper-attention to rules and following specific formulae for success. Especially the father and his comments about the proper length of kisses in various situations.
No mention of the band or Becky in the monthly letters or the names of the friends on birthday party excursion to the mall. I think we are safe going with Vicki and Gordie, unless...
Today's strip has no Eva, and we know she sings with 4-Evah. So, maybe she shows up with the other 2 people and announces that one of them can play keyboards. What do you think?
Thanks for the kind words about Dirne.
I think Eva appearing with the other two is a remote possibility. Eva showing up by herself could happen. Something will have to occur to give the Lynnmates fodder for six (or more) days of this. . . .
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